Counter-guard bracket.



s. CRANE. COUNTER GUARD BRACKET. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25,1913.

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MARTIN S. CRANE, 0F HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

COUNTER-GUARD BRACKET.

Application filed September 25, 1913.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN S. CRANE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Counter- Guard Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to brackets such as are provided for supporting guards of glass or other sheet material for counters, and for protecting counters such as sales counters and the goods thereon.

The object of my improvements is to provide a device of the character specified, simple in construction, and having means for adjusting its several parts relatively to each other for meeting a variety of requirements in this class of goods.

YVith these ends in view, my improved bracket comprises eatures illustrated in their preferred form in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an end elevation of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation corresponding with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a portion of what is shown in Fig. 1 and looking at the front thereof. Fig. 1 is a further fragmentary view in perspective illustrating some of the adjustable features of my device. Fig. 5 is another fragmentary view in perspective of a portion illustrating another feature of my device. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of another feature of my device. Fig. 7 is an end elevation similar to Fig. 1 and illustrating a modified form of my improved device.

My improvements comprise a plurality of articulated adjustably interlocking members as 2, 3 and e, one of which, 2, may be a foot adapted for attachment to counter 5. The lower end of upright member 3 is provided with a face 6 which may be of disk-like form and provided with interlocking means which may comprise a radial rib 7 Foot 2 is provided with an oppositely disposed disk-like face 8 having a plurality of grooves 9 and 10 for coaction, one at a time, with rib 7 on disk 6 of upright 3.

For binding members 2 and 3 together with faces 6 and 8 in engagement, and rib 7 in engagement with one of grooves 9 and 10, I provide disk 6 with a central hole 11 and disk 8 with a central hole 12. Said hole 12 may be provided with a screw thread fipecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

Serial No. 791,746.

for engagement with binding screw 13. Foot 2 may be provided with holes through base 20 thereof for screws 1 1 which may be screwed into counter 5 to hold said base securely positioned.

Upper end of upright 3 may be provided with interlocking means similar to the interlocking means at its lower end just described. For engagement with the interlocking means at the upper end of upright 3, I provide horizontal member 4, said member 4 being provided with interlocking means similar to that of foot 2 for engagement with the interlocking means at the upper end of upright 3. Said members 3 and 1 are conveniently made of "1 section, the flat por ions thereof being adapted for supporting glass or other plates 15 and 16 respectively.

Plate 15 may comprise two portions 15 and 15 meeting in a straight line joint, the medial line of upright 3. For holding said plate portions securely against upright 3, I preferably employ a sheet metal strip 17 having holes therethrough for screws 18, 19 and 21. Said plate portions 15 and 15 may be chamfered at their corners, as shown in Fig. 3, to permit the passage of screws 18 and 21, and may be notched midway their height for the passage of screw 19.

For holding top plate 16 in position on horizontal members as 4, 1 preferably provide a metal strip 22, having one end thereof 23 bent into C shape and bifurcated to span rib 10 of member 1, and having the other end bent downwardly in L form and provided with a hole for the passage of screw 21. \Vhen said strip 22 is employed in connection with an end bracket and the end of plate 16, 1 preferably provide down turned ears 2% for retaining said. plate in position. In some instances I employ one or more additional horizontal members as 25 for supporting shelves in horizontal position between the counter and horizontal member 4.

Upright 3 and horizontal member 25 may be provided with coacting interlocking means similar to those already described, or said horizontal arm 25 may be bifurcated to span the rib of upright 3 and be held rigidly in place thereon by a pin passing through hole 26 therein and hole 27 in the rib of upright 3, Fig. 6. In some cases I prefer to form members 3 and 1 integral, as for instance, for the reception of a curved plate 28, Fig. 7. In this case, retaining strip 29 may be of one continuous piece, as illustrated in said Fig. 7, and held in place by screws as already described. It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that said retaining strips 17 and 29 may be comprised of several short pieces of some convenient shape, such as round or square, held on by screws as 18.

By my improved device, upright 3 may be supported at different angles relatively to said counter and members as 1-, interlocking therewith, in horizontal position or in such other position as desired. My improved device has the further advantage oi mobility in assembling as any one of a variety of heights of member 3 may be assembled with foot 2, and any one of a variety oit lengths of member a and member may be assembled therewith.

I claim:

1. A counter guard bracket including in combination a fixed foot, an upright member adjustably interlocking therewith, a horizontal member adjustably interlocking with said upright member, and plate retaining means on one or more or said members.

2. A counter guard bracket including in combination a plurality of articulated adjustably hitter-locking members, said interlocking means comprising a disk-like portion on each member, radial grooves in one disk-like member and one or more complementary ribs on the other disk-like member and means for binding said disk-like inembers face to face, and plate retaining means on one or more of said interlocking members.

3. A counter guard bracket including in combination. a foot adapted for attachment to a counter, an upright member adjustably interlocking therewith, a plurality of horizontal members adjustably interlocking with said upright member, and plate retaining means on one or more of said members.

l. A counter guard bracket including in combination a foot adapted for attachment to a counter, an upright member adjustably interlocking therewith, a horizontal member adjnstably interlocking with said upright member, and a horizontal member fixed to said upright member between said foot and said adj us tably interlocking horizontal memher.

5. Er counter guard bracket including in combination lined fact, an upright member adj ustably interlocking therewith and a hormontal member adjustably interlocking with said upright member, said interlocking means comprising a pair of coacting faces, one thereof on. each oi the interlocking members, one oi said faces being provided with interlocking; means and the other of said being provided with a plurality of interiockii 3' means for engagement with said first mentioned interlocking means, and means for binding said members together in interlocking engagement.

Signed at N cw York, in the county of Few York and State of New York, this 23 day of Sept, 1913, before two subscribing witnesses.

Ii iARTlN S. CRANE. Vitnesses:

CHAS. W. LA RUE, Monnis E. LEVY.

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